Word: steps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...meeting in the New Lecture Hall at 9 o'clock this morning members of the Class of 1933 will take their first step towards selecting a field of concentration when they gather to hear addresses on this subject from President Lowell, Assistant Professor J. P. Baxter 3d, '23 of the History Department, and Delmar Leighton '19, chairman of the Committee on the Choice of Electives. Freshmen will be excused from classes during this period...
...nature of research. The rate at which dust is deposited at various places and under varying conditions must be studied. This accounts for the relatively coarse dust particles, but it gives only the aggregate quantity collected in a given place over the period of test. The next step is to study the nature of this material with a view to determining. If possible, where it came from. This involves chemical and microscopic study of the dust collected...
...magnitude of a star is the measure of its brightness: the higher the number, the fainter the star. In the step of one magnitude the light will decrease in the ratio of 1:2.512. Five magnitudes corresponds to a decrease in intensity in ratio...
...Rayon is produced from any form of cellulose, primarily cotton. When made of wood (viscose rayon) it is treated with sodium hydroxide which reduces it to alpha cellulose. After this it is treated with carbon bisulphide. After one more step an orange-colored, syrupy liquid results which is forced through tiny holes, forming filaments, which after being treated in baths become rayon thread. From a laboratory invention, rayon has grown to be the world's third largest textile...
...election of two Seniors to the committee on admissions of the Harvard Club of Boston will be the first step towards the execution of the club's decision to give undergraduates an opportunity to become members in their final year at college. The selection of the two Seniors will be made, it is expected, at the next meeting of the board of directors, in the second week in April...